Fallen Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF CGCGHH| Why should I be the first to fall | A |
| Of all the leaves on this old tree | B |
| Though sadly soon I know that all | A |
| Will lose their hold and follow me | B |
| While my birth brothers bravely blow | C |
| Why should I be first to go | C |
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| Why should I be the last to cling | D |
| Of all the leaves on this bleak bough | E |
| I've fluttered since the fire of Spring | D |
| And I am worn and withered now | E |
| I would escape the Winter gale | F |
| And sleep soft silvered by a snail | F |
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| When swoop the legions of the snow | C |
| To pitch their tents in roaring weather | G |
| We fallen leaves will lie below | C |
| And rot rejoicingly together | G |
| And from our rich and dark decay | H |
| Will laugh our brothers of the May | H |
Robert William Service
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